From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 5 11:58:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8B9437B42A for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 11:58:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g35JvxZ56906; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 11:57:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 11:57:59 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200204051957.g35JvxZ56906@apollo.backplane.com> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: pir@pir.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet address format changes. References: <200204051846.g35IkTJ54788@apollo.backplane.com> <21537.1018036280@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : :> This brings up the question as to whether we should 'fix' this in :> -current and -stable, or just fix it in -stable and leave current :> alone (i.e. make the new format, without leading zero's, the standard :> for -current). : :Please don't "fix" it. A regular format (with the leading zeros) is much :easier to handle. : :Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no Huh? I think there is some confusion. Currently ether_ntoa() generates something like: 0:23:a4:3:3:3 ifconfig was changed to use ether_ntoa(), thus changing the output format. I am proposing that we 'fix' ether_ntoa() to generate: 00:23:a4:03:03:03 Not the other way around. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message